Posted on 05/01/2025 6:56:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed employees to gather a list of activists and investigate them, people familiar with the matter said.
A top Trump appointee in the Justice Department ordered an aggressive investigation in the last several months of student protesters at Columbia University, raising anger and alarm among career prosecutors and investigators who saw the demand as politically motivated and lacking legal merit, people familiar with the episode said.
The demand for the inquiry into students who protested Israel’s conduct of the conflict in Gaza also prompted pushback from a federal magistrate judge, who believed some of the steps being sought by the official, Emil Bove III, were unjustified and might violate the First Amendment, the people said.
The breadth of the investigation, conducted by the Justice Department’s civil rights division, has not been previously reported. The ensuing clash highlights the tensions roiling the department as administration officials seek to enact President Trump’s agenda. That bid includes redirecting the civil rights division away from its traditional approach of protecting the rights of minority groups to a new mission of fulfilling a campaign promise to crack down on student protesters amid accusations of rampant antisemitism on college campuses.
Those types of demands from political appointees at the Justice Department are part of the reason there has been an exodus of lawyers from the division in recent weeks, according to current and former officials.
The federal investigation into student protesters at Columbia appears to have stalled for now, but it represents one of the most contentious episodes yet inside the Justice Department during Mr. Trump’s second term. The dispute has left lingering ill will within the department, as well as the courts and the F.B.I., the people said.
Asked for comment, Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general,...
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But no alarm was raised when they did it to President Trump.
Exactly, lefties are just hypocrites.
For the life of me, I don't known why the 9/11 terrorists didn't take out the New York Times too.
This is the pro-trans whacko judge on the case:
A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday narrowly rejected one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees in New York after Republicans strenuously objected to a decision she issued as a magistrate judge recommending that a transgender inmate convicted of child sex abuse be transferred to a women’s prison.
Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia broke with his fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and joined with Republicans on a 10-11 vote to reject advancing U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn’s nomination to become a life-tenured district court judge for the full chamber’s consideration.
Sounds like that's exactly what they're trying to do for Jewish students.
Takedown on the first post!
Consider yourself *highly* commended!
(For the life of me, I don’t known why the 9/11 terrorists didn’t take out the New York Times too.)
Because they’re on the same side? 🤪😛😜
Same agenda? Destroy America?
no problem going after parents at school board meetings or protesting baby killing facilities either. hmmmm...
“… the reason there has been an exodus of lawyers from the division in recent weeks, …”
That’s not the reason they are leaving. They don’t have to answer questions if they no longer work there.
EC
You mean like Jan 6 grandmas?
“... a federal magistrate judge, who believed some of the steps being sought by the official, Emil Bove III, were unjustified and might violate the First Amendment, the people said.”
I don’t recall any complaints about targeting J6 rally attendees.
Just continuing to get those danged chipmunks to stick their heads up out of their hole...
Then BANG! Soyonara, treasonous communist scum...
New York Times and the terrorists are on the same side.
😃😄🤣🤪😛😛
DOJ does not set policy and is NOT independent.
I’d call supporting Hamas, or any terrorist org., a national security concern.
They’re uncomfortable looking into activists with ties to terrorists? Must be Democrats.
These same career prosecutors and investigators had no problem putting undercover assets in Catholic churches.
Americans aren’t being deported or threatened, only those who lied to get a student visa or those here illegally.
As others have stated: Hypocrites. And liars.
This hearkens to my prior comments: Bondi needs to clean house or POTUS needs to replace her.
“ They don’t have to answer questions if they no longer work there.”
Drop some Congressional subpoenas on them.
If they don’t answer questions cite them for contempt and prosecute.
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Alarms that the gig was up and they no longer can protect their fellow communists.
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